switchlogic:
Places that insist you sit in a dingy waiting room. The worst being Iceland Swindon where you sit in a room waiting to be called to go on a bay then back in sitting room while they tip you. I spent 9 hours 45 minutes in that dump yesterday sitting on crap chairs that are office rejects?
Someone in there must know of a delay that long so they should allow you to go for a sleep on the bunk when it’s that long, let’s say if you could drop the trailer and pull a few inches forward then they can’t say there’s danger of your driving off whilst on red light. But that of course would require someone to come out to check that and authorise it and that would require a week long training course to spot all the dangers of what could go wrong and how to be sure there’s no way that trailer can move.
Iceland Warrington actually, the waiting room there is about 4 times smaller than the Swindon one but has no windows either. Such a demoralising place to have to wait for the 2 hours (minimum) it takes them to tip you.
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When I go there, you sit in the canteen, have a breakfast £3.99. then sit in a big sofa, you haven’t been told that then.
No the goods in staff kept that quiet from me! I was told to wait in that little room next to their office. Where’s the canteen then? And how do you know when your tipped? Just come back and check after a reasonable time…like 2 hours?
The ones who don’t grasp the situation when I tell them “No, I won’t be waiting for your night shift forkies to unload me because you’ve allowed your day shift forkies to go home before their time even though you know you’ve got 30 pallets coming to you” type of places. Manager tipped me…
Rowley010:
I know a lot are going to say supermarket RDCs here but for me it’s…
Building sites!
My reasons are:
No info regarding how to find the site or correct HGV entrance. Had to turn round in a country lane last week because I’d come round to the other side of the site which is where the post code was and was told I can’t enter that way only exit. Not so bad there but in London when that happens and your on red routes and low bridges everywhere.
Once your on site no room to manoeuvre, and get the whole “we didn’t think you’d be in one as big as that”.
Dirty [zb] holes bringing loads of mud into the truck.
Takes you an hour of asking around to find someone from the company working on site that your delivering to, finally get hold of them and they get someone to tip you, agency fork lift driver then tips you and you take your notes to him and he says sorry I can’t sign that I’m only agency, so then you’ve got to do another hour of asking about to find someone from the company again to get your notes signed.
Hate them. For me it’s my worst drop.
What’s yours and why?
I have to fully agree with you on this one!
Although I don’t have a HGV licence yet, I have done similar work in a 3.5t dropside van delivering access equipment.
The worst ones I have found are either the ones that don’t let you onto the site until someone from the company inside the site you are delivering too comes down meaning you’re half blocking the road… or London as you say.
All a nightmare to get to, no real loading area. I did one on a one way street that was only wide enough to get one vehicle down and I had to unload almost a full van load, just parked in the middle of the road. I know it’s not my problem and people will have to wait but it does stress me out knowing i’m the one thats holding them up and I can’t go any quicker than I am.
Maybe I’d never be cut out to be a HGV driver after all lol
switchlogic:
Places that insist you sit in a dingy waiting room. The worst being Iceland Swindon where you sit in a room waiting to be called to go on a bay then back in sitting room while they tip you. I spent 9 hours 45 minutes in that dump yesterday sitting on crap chairs that are office rejects?
Christ, my boss would explode. He doesn’t take too well to these types of P I Stakers with ridiculous waiting times and isn’t afraid to pull lorries out, tipped or not.
My most hated kind of tip is anywhere with stupid rules like wearing steel toe boots and hi vis to sit in a holding cell, places that have stupid procedures that are utterly pointless but you’re expected to read your crystal ball to know what they are, anywhere that doesn’t let you sit in the cab, anywhere that is staffed by mouth breathers that can’t comprehend doing their job without following a script, anywhere that doesn’t tip you at your booking time, anywhere that requires a Suzie lock or other stupid fudding around, anywhere that tells you you’re not allowed to blindside or split couple or do anything unless they say so.
Basically any corporate blue chip dungpit in the festering pile of week old smegma that is the UK.
Went to Tesco Daventry week before last. 3 and half hours to tip 7 pallets. The drivers who complained were told “You need to allow at least 4 hours to be tipped”.
At least walking round a building site gives me some exercise. Imagine going for a walk round a RDC?
Most of our drops are easy enough ( retail store) but some i dislike due to the people. 95% are pleasant enough and will make you a brew, chat to you etc etc but some are pig horrible and treat you like nothing more than a tool, a machine even who simply brings you their delivery. A person who isn’t even worthy enough to use said stores toilet facilities. There’s actually one store in Liverpool where you deliver round the back. They are discustingly rude and literally no words are exchanged during the drop. You then have to reverse back out onto a main road and they simply close the door and leave you to it, no help what so ever!
switchlogic:
Places that insist you sit in a dingy waiting room. The worst being Iceland Swindon where you sit in a room waiting to be called to go on a bay then back in sitting room while they tip you. I spent 9 hours 45 minutes in that dump yesterday sitting on crap chairs that are office rejects?
Someone in there must know of a delay that long so they should allow you to go for a sleep on the bunk when it’s that long, let’s say if you could drop the trailer and pull a few inches forward then they can’t say there’s danger of your driving off whilst on red light. But that of course would require someone to come out to check that and authorise it and that would require a week long training course to spot all the dangers of what could go wrong and how to be sure there’s no way that trailer can move.
Iceland Warrington actually, the waiting room there is about 4 times smaller than the Swindon one but has no windows either. Such a demoralising place to have to wait for the 2 hours (minimum) it takes them to tip you.
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When I go there, you sit in the canteen, have a breakfast £3.99. then sit in a big sofa, you haven’t been told that then.
No the goods in staff kept that quiet from me! I was told to wait in that little room next to their office. Where’s the canteen then? And how do you know when your tipped? Just come back and check after a reasonable time…like 2 hours?
Yeah he’s waiting in the wrong place! What do you sit in the corridor by goods in? As chap above said go to canteen, I always sit on big comfy sofas and I’m often in and out of Iceland Warrington in under an hour
Worst type for me? Any number of major London hospitals which have delivery areas that are totally inadequate (assuming you can find them in the first place!) considering the number of goods vehicles of all sizes that need to access them every day of the week. You can’t even wait outside until a space becomes available due to the Red Routes on which many of them are located.
Adonis posted at 15.23 today, I nominate his post the best ever on Trucknet, the man is right, how, when, why and where did all this health and safety nonsense start in the cess pit of a UK ?
A tanker driver in Romania or Bulgaria will tip his corrosive acid tanker with no Ppe , and walk on top of the tanker with no ladder or harness.
He will wear cut off Jeans for shorts.
No hi viz.
No nothing.And survive the day.
You go abroad and building sites are held up with bamboo sticks or planks as support.
In the UK, lorry drivers wearing a hi viz when driving must be mentally ill.
Anyone ever tipped at the places in skem what deliver to IOM? Like a absolute ■■■■■ jail, stop at gate, follow traffic lights, sign in, get tipped, take paperwork back around to reception, drive to security, back out to security with paperwork to make sure its ok, wait for lights, like a prison, absolute pathetic with jobs worth security. The worst ones are the forkies with the look at me status too, got wait for this and that or wait for so much get done when you have 1 thing to deliver, usually the “well if you dont want it now im off” does the trick though…
toby1234abc:
Adonis posted at 15.23 today, I nominate his post the best ever on Trucknet, the man is right, how, when, why and where did all this health and safety nonsense start in the cess pit of a UK ?
A tanker driver in Romania or Bulgaria will tip his corrosive acid tanker with no Ppe , and walk on top of the tanker with no ladder or harness.
He will wear cut off Jeans for shorts.
No hi viz.
No nothing.And survive the day.
You go abroad and building sites are held up with bamboo sticks or planks as support.
In the UK, lorry drivers wearing a hi viz when driving must be mentally ill.
In the UK there are 2.9 road deaths per 100k pop and 5.1 deaths per 100k vehicles
Romania has 8.7 ditto and 31.4 ditto
Lets not copy the Romanian way.
switchlogic:
Places that insist you sit in a dingy waiting room. The worst being Iceland Swindon where you sit in a room waiting to be called to go on a bay then back in sitting room while they tip you. I spent 9 hours 45 minutes in that dump yesterday sitting on crap chairs that are office rejects?
How often do you let people walk all over you, you must be one of those easy touchs.
Why in the world would anyone wait that long and be treated like crap as well
All i can say is you must be hard up for a job to put up with that have you no respect for yourself
AndrewG:
Some of the garden centres we deliver to, some of the worst are in Portugal. A lot of it is handball which i dont mind at all but getting in and out of some can be a real mare. Handballing off 12t of agg in 25kg bags in 30degree heat always opens the sweat pores…
Could be worse could be doing it in the ■■■■■■■ down rain :-')
ag1992:
Anyone ever tipped at the places in skem what deliver to IOM? Like a absolute [zb] jail, stop at gate, follow traffic lights, sign in, get tipped, take paperwork back around to reception, drive to security, back out to security with paperwork to make sure its ok, wait for lights, like a prison, absolute pathetic with jobs worth security. The worst ones are the forkies with the look at me status too, got wait for this and that or wait for so much get done when you have 1 thing to deliver, usually the “well if you dont want it now im off” does the trick though…
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Graylaw freight ? The security guy is a bell end, most of the yard lads are ignorant twunts, I’ve always found the office staff nice and pleasant enough, maybe it’s because I’m giving them a cheque when I drop my goods off.
Got to agree with building sites, got there once to be asked where my moffett is by the guy on the forks, I said it says here forks on site, which considering he is sat on them you think he’d know that.
He then says for gods sake you’ll have to wait why I start my brickies off! So I said no problem and he tells me to park in some little corner I obviously wouldn’t fit, so I told him I wouldn’t fit to which he insists I will fit. I drive up to it to show him I won’t fit so he says fine back out and park over there, I stick it in reverse and start to back out, to a little crunch as one of these brickies has decided to park behind on the left of me, and I had a bend between cab and trailer so couldn’t see that side, I leave a 1 inch tiny dent, which he decides he needs an accident management firm in to fix.
Iv done Graylaw a few times. No problems. Do building sites all day every day and have done for years. Would I go back to sitting 5 hours at sainsbury Stoke? Never! Generally we go back to the same sites again and again so get to know the people and places to unload which helps massively but iv been to a few rdcs multiple times and they still think you are ■■■■■■■! I’m hoping to only be driving for another few years anyway with a bit of luck. I’ll be quite happy letting the trucks drive themselves.
Procter & Gamble , Seaton Delaval, Tyne & Wier .
Most miserable and disorganised bunch of muppets on earth .
First visit in a 7.5t with mega urgent delivery of packaging materials on a 24hr delivery from Europe.
Kept waiting for two hours after booking time before they spoke to me , told me if the guards on the loading bays don’t fit my wagon they won’t unload me .They don’t without doing damage . A few phone calls to my office and then the buying office and they are suddenly running around like headless chickens because production is about to stop because they have run out of the material that I am delivering .
Couple of months later a similar case , but this is even more urgent and staff has been specially arranged to come in early to unload me . Unfortunately nobody has informed security who won’t let me in the gate !
The only saving grace on that drop is staying at my mates farm at Northallerton instead of truck stops.
Three or four times a year and always a problem at the drop, not helped by an overnight run from Dover ,especially when the A1 was closed overnight .
toby1234abc:
Any Tilt trailer, horrible things to work on, wooden boards on the side, little metal side doors.
A load that needed a FULL strip down, would mean converting the Tilt in to a flat bed trailer for an awkward load, such as a machine .
The plastic side and roof of the Tilt would weigh a ton.
In the winter, heavy ice on the roof or a deep puddle of rain water to shift.
In the summer, European heat of 45 degrees, rebuilding or stripping down a Tilt on your own.
Got a metal factory in Lisbon, unload it, there was a hook crane that slides up and down inside the unloading canopy area.
The man got his load off, then turned off the site lights off, to leave me in the dark alone, to pull the trailer sheet back ,which the crane could have done in seconds.
I swore under my breath at the Pork and cheeser Muppet.
Im the complete opposite, id have a tilt over any other type of trailer for the work we mainly do. 30 bulk bags of aggregate+ 6 doubled up over the bogie dumped onto a tilt no straps needed, just settles into one big mass and the side boards hold it all in…you just know its not going anywhere. Stripping and rebuilding comes as second nature now…
Adonis.:
My most hated kind of tip is anywhere with stupid rules like wearing steel toe boots and hi vis to sit in a holding cell, places that have stupid procedures that are utterly pointless but you’re expected to read your crystal ball to know what they are, anywhere that doesn’t let you sit in the cab, anywhere that is staffed by mouth breathers that can’t comprehend doing their job without following a script, anywhere that doesn’t tip you at your booking time, anywhere that requires a Suzie lock or other stupid fudding around, anywhere that tells you you’re not allowed to blindside or split couple or do anything unless they say so.
Basically any corporate blue chip dungpit in the festering pile of week old smegma that is the UK.
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Youre not wrong there mate. A bit of savvy is all thats required to keep safe.I dont even possess any steelies, fabric trainers for years and feet are still intact. From what i read on this very forum re the daft H&S regs which seems to have infested the UK it wouldnt be for me . Holding cells, suzie locks, no blindsiding/split coupling, handing keys in…wtf has it come down to
Adonis.:
My most hated kind of tip is anywhere with stupid rules like wearing steel toe boots and hi vis to sit in a holding cell, places that have stupid procedures that are utterly pointless but you’re expected to read your crystal ball to know what they are, anywhere that doesn’t let you sit in the cab, anywhere that is staffed by mouth breathers that can’t comprehend doing their job without following a script, anywhere that doesn’t tip you at your booking time, anywhere that requires a Suzie lock or other stupid fudding around, anywhere that tells you you’re not allowed to blindside or split couple or do anything unless they say so.
Basically any corporate blue chip dungpit in the festering pile of week old smegma that is the UK.
A.
Youre not wrong there mate. A bit of savvy is all thats required to keep safe.I dont even possess any steelies, fabric trainers for years and feet are still intact. From what i read on this very forum re the daft H&S regs which seems to have infested the UK it wouldnt be for me . Holding cells, suzie locks, no blindsiding/split coupling, handing keys in…wtf has it come down to
Fill every aspect of the job with knuckle draggers and this is what you get. Jumped up brainless ■■■■ thinking up stupid rules to justify their job, organic sandbags stuffed into a hi vis who have no concept of getting the job done and who look for any excuse not to do the job they’re employed to do and agency/stobrat types who can’t perform simple tasks like sitting on a bay without forking it up.
The worst part is most of the idiots actually believe the pish they spout, if not believe then they can’t comprehend how stupid they sound.
